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From start to finish

This is the first in a series of posts about how various pastel works came into being. These will show different states as a piece is completed with some insight into the process and materials – plus other commentary. Essentially, how they were born, how they grew up and what problems they presented as they matured into finished pieces. For...

A quick one

This is an unfinished work in only two iterations. Here is the first – a single drawing from two poses at a session at the studio on a sheet of unprepared paper. Photo taken March 11, 2018. After hosing it off with my favorite redaction tool this iteration happened on July 26, 2018. Some tweaking is yet to occur...

Learn about The Smoother Skin and Home Grown 3 from 2018

The Smoother Skin, 2018 began as a figure study on prepared paper. This is the third state, after toning the paper. There was a two-hour drawing then manipulations with sprayed water, medium, spray paint and pastel dust. Here is another view – “artfully” shot for instagram – that shows some detail of the manipulations. Finally the finished piece below that will...

Changes

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) “Why the dramatic change in your work after 2014?” “Why is your work so sparse from 2012 – 2014?” My tendency is to avoid writing about personal issues but there is a compelling reason to do so now because the questions noted...

Portraiture

Are portraits more about the sitter, the artist, or the time they live in? I work from life – in the sitter’s presence and all the immediacy that entails. This helps me maintain a connection to real life at a time when digital life can be overwhelming. In this way, portraiture is about the artist...